Studio and Life

I went into the studio today to work on my online shop. In theory I could work on it anywhere, but I like to have all the things I want to put into the shop on hand so I can test going through the process of photographing them, and adding them to the system. Because each time I discover some new edge case I have to fix.

When I arrived I saw that Kris had been in yesterday, 'cause I spotted these.

I guess the machine is working.

These are still waiting until after last frost to go outside.

Well, good news, it turns on!!

And that's as far as we've gotten with it.

Got some new shelves for outside the greenhouse as the seedlings are being moved back and forth, in and out, in earnest now.

FUCK OFF SPARROWS

Sparrows keep nibbling the growing veg, in theory this will either stop them, or give them something interesting to look at.

Okay, so this thing turned up in the studio. It's a 3d clay printer, which reads GCODE, so I'm thinking I can turn all my GCODE pen plotting skills into clay pots 😁

Went to London, took some snaps, got super tired!

Made a video about random number, and picked some of my favourites (between 0 and 1).

I'm enjoying being in the greenhouse, surrounded by plants.

Trying to set up some colour calibration in the studio. I have a fairly good lighting set-up, which is pretty consistent, what I'd really like is a couple of profiles I can just apply to colour correct any "product shots" I take of prints for the online shop.

tbh though it's turning out to be a totally pita. And I've very happy to settle with good-enough. I know everyone's monitors and screens are different anyway, I mainly just want it to be not too far, to the point of the colours "popping" more on screen than they do in real life.

If a print or pen plot is "dull" then I don't want to "correct" that in photos and then have the person receiving it to be disappointed.

Got some more flowers in there, straight from the garden centre, as the ones I'm growing in the greenhouse are still nowhere near ready.

More shots from the garden. Since I last uploaded here I've dug out a bed around the middle circle. Next step is to fill it with flowers.

I said I wasn't going to grow vegetables, only flowers for ink. And yet here we are, one of two courgette seedlings.

The blossom doesn't last long.

Quick one this; spent the day working from Swan Hill Studios, upstairs 'cause there was something going on downstairs. I just liked the lighting for this shot, which was also part of my photo365 project.

Now it's started to get warmer I've been moving the plants in and out the greenhouse to get some of them 'hardened-off'. Everything is still frosty in the morning and guess will continue to be for the next couple of months.

Gotta stop the plants getting used to the luxury of the greenhouse, so they got turfed out this morning to spend the day outside. Apparently this is the 'hardening off' process. It's still too cold for them to stay out over night; there's always the chance of frost for a few more weeks.

Well, this is what a handful of YouTube videos tell me I should be doing anyway, and who am I to argue?!

End of the day they'll be going back in.

Had to spend an extra couple of hours this morning sorting out all the extra bulbs and plants from the garden centre. I don't think I'll be able to fit any more in here... unless, hanging baskets.

Went to the garden center and bought far too many things, so I spent the day figuring out a) what to do with it all and b) where to put it.